Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has selected an open source electronic patient record (EPR) called openMAXIMS from healthcare software provider IMS MAXIMS, to improve the recording and sharing of patient data across its hospital and community sites. The open source approach is expected to save the trust several million pounds in licence fees and future development costs, while also providing more control on how the software is developed in line with the hospital’s needs. Implementation started in December 2015 and once rolled out, Blackpool will become the third NHS trust to deploy the IMS MAXIMS open source EPR.
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UK House Of Commons Select Committee Publishes Report Criticising RCUK’s Open Access Policy
Richard Poynder | Open and Shut? | September 10, 2013
The House of Commons Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) Committee has today published a critical report on the Open Access (OA) policy introduced on April 1st by Research Councils UK (RCUK). Read More »
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UK ICT Strategy Offers "Level Playing Field" to FOSS Again
Editors | H-Open | March 30, 2011
The UK Government's Minister for the Cabinet Office, Francis Maude MP, has unveiled the coalition's ICT (Information and communications technology) strategy. The new strategy includes plans to "create a level playing field for open source software."
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UK institutionalizes preference for open source over proprietary IT
Molly Bernhart Walker | FierceGovernmentIT | March 20, 2013
The U.K. national government issued March 14 a beta version of its Government Services Design Manual , which formalizes a preference for open source technology for digital services..."Use open source software in preference to proprietary or closed source alternatives, in particular for operating systems, networking software, web servers, databases and programming languages," instructs the manual. Read More »
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UK is Global Leader in Open Healthcare Data, Says Tim Kelsey
Kathleen Hall | ComputerWeekly | May 4, 2012
The UK is leading the world in its publication of healthcare datasets, the government’s transparency tsar Tim Kelsey has said. Read More »
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UK Open-Access Route Too Costly, Report Says
Richard Van Noorden | Nature | September 10, 2013
The UK government's favoured route to open-access publishing puts unacceptable strains on research budgets at a time of funding shortages, says a parliamentary report released today. It also calls for more transparency and competition in the costs of publishing research. Read More »
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UK Research Funders Announce Grants For Open-Access Publishing
Richard Van Noorden | Nature | November 8, 2012
The United Kingdom’s research-funding agencies will together spend more than £100 million (US$159 million) over the next five years to help pay for taxpayer-funded research papers to be free to read, they announced today. Read More »
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UK Research Funders Announce Liberated Open-access Policy
Richard Van Noorden | Nature | July 16, 2012
From April 2013, science papers must be made free to access within six months of publication if they come from work paid for by one of the United Kingdom’s seven government-funded grant agencies, the research councils, which together spend about £2.8 billion (US$4.4 billion) each year on research. Read More »
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UK's Blackpool Teaching Hospitals selects open source electronic patient records
Press Release |
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, openMAXIMS CIC, IMS MAXIMS |
January 7, 2016
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UK's Bolton NHS Trust Goes Live with OpenEyes Open Source Software
Laura Stevens | Digital Health | March 29, 2017
A million-pound open source electronic patient record has gone live in a northern NHS trust’s eye department. Bolton NHS Foundation Trust deployed the ophthalmic OpenEyes software in January. David Haider, consultant ophthalmologist and chief clinical information officer at Bolton, told Digital Health News that he was doing a “slow deployment”, with the EPR being used in cataracts first...
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UK's Bolton NHS Trust Plans on Broader Open Source Eye Care Record Uptake
Neil Merret | Government Computing | May 9, 2017
Having this year gone live with OpenEyes software devised by another trust, hospital body now looking to expand functionality and user base among other trusts Bolton NHS Foundation Trust is committed to integrating a growing number of paper-based processes for optical care onto the OpenEyes open source patient record software that was initially developed by Moorfields Eye Hospital in London...
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UK's Code4Health Interoperability Site Launched at EHILive 2015
Rebecca McBeth | digitalhealth.net | November 4, 2015
A Code4Health community focusing on interoperability has been launched today at the EHI Live 2015 conference in Birmingham. NHS England has unveiled a new web tool to encourage people to discuss and define a list of key application programming interfaces needed to enable new models of working across health and social care. Inderjit Singh, head of enterprise architecture at NHS England, told Digital Health News the Code4Health community “is about bringing together localities, suppliers and national organisations as a group of peers.”
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UK's Security Branch Says Ubuntu Most Secure End-User OS
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols | ZDNet | January 17, 2014
CESG, the UK government's arm that assesses operating systems and software security, has published its findings for ‘End User Device’ operating systems. The most secure of the lot? Ubuntu 12.04. Read More »
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UK: E-Referrals To Be Open Source
Rebecca Todd | E-Health Insider | May 28, 2013
Two suppliers have been shortlisted to develop an open source ‘NHS e-referrals service’ that will be officially launched next month. Beverley Bryant, NHS England's director of strategic systems and technology, told EHI that plans for a new e-referrals service had been given the “green light”. Read More »
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UK: Open Systems Towards Improving NHS IT
Press Release |
City University London's Centre for Health Informatics |
March 4, 2011
The City University London's Centre for Health Informatics (CHI) launched Health Informatics research programme and policy challenge paper to identify how NHS information technology (IT) services can be improved and made more cost-effective. The programme will employ information systems, such as electronic health records, and will use a combination of the following key elements to achieve this goal: open standards;open source software;open systems interfaces; and agile development.
Ultraviolet Light Robot Kills Ebola In Two Minutes; Why Doesn't Every Hospital Have One Of These?
Mike Adams | Natural News | October 11, 2014
While vaccine makers and drug companies are rushing to bring medical interventions to the market that might address the Ebola pandemic, there's already a technology available right now that can kill Ebola in just two minutes in hospitals, quarantine centers, commercial offices and even public schools...
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